Heat is a entertainment magazine published by Bauer Media Group. Its mix of celebrity news, gossip, beauty advice and fashion is primarily aimed at women, although not as directly as in other women's magazines. It also features movie and music reviews, TV listings and major celebrity interviews.

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Heat was launched in February 1999[2][3] as a general interest entertainment magazine, at a cost of more than £4m. However, unlike other Emap (now Bauer) magazine launches before and after, it was not an immediate success, with a circulation below 100,000. A series of revamps quickly repositioned the magazine as a less serious, more gossip-oriented magazine aimed at women, and circulation quickly grew. A series of high-profile celebrity relationships, such as Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt provided ample material, while reality shows such as Big Brother and Pop Idol grew popular at just the right time to help fill pages. Heat achieved record sale figures when Jade Goody had a make-over and was first on the front cover after her stint in Big Brother 3 (2002) and later when Nikki Grahame and Pete Bennett from Big Brother 7 split and Grahame was interviewed for Heat in 2006.

In 2009–10 Heat spearheaded a campaign alongside Girls Aloud's Nicola Roberts advocating the banning of sunbed use in the UK for under-18s. The campaign was a success and a bill was passed by Parliament shortly before the 2010 General Election.

Heatworld.com launched on 22 May 2007 and was edited by Julian Linley, who had been deputy editor of Heat magazine for five years.[8] The site is an online interpretation of the magazine, emulating the mix of celebrity news, gossip and fashion. However, heatworld.com does not replicate magazine content and bases itself more on video and audio content and breaking news. The site is advertising funded.

On 25 September 2007, Heat Radio launched. The station is owned by Bauer Radio, a division of the company, Bauer, which owns Heat magazine. The station can be listened to through Freeview on channel number 716, across the UK on DAB Digital Radio, on their app or at heatradio.com.

As Heat magazine grew in popularity, spin off merchandise was released to cash in on its success. Current items carrying the Heat brand name are an exercise DVD titled Heat: Get That Celeb Look which was released in 2003, an interactive DVD game featuring celebrity questions, an annual for the year 2007 and in 2003 a set of mini books titled Say What were released containing quotes from celebrities such as Gareth Gates.

In an issue which was released on 27 November 2007, Heat used a photograph of Katie Price's disabled son, who suffers from septo-optic dysplasia, a rare condition which means he is visually impaired and suffers from hormonal deficiencies, causing him to easily gain weight and means he is partially blind,[11] on a sticker which was included with the magazine, with the slogan "Harvey wants to eat me!" The magazine's editor Mark Frith made an apology for the offence caused by the sticker,[12] and an apology was also posted on the magazine's website.[13] A spokesperson for the Press Complaints Commission confirmed that Katie Price was planning to make a complaint about the matter.[14] The magazine was also criticized in the press over the incident, with one editorial describing it as "the lowest point in British journalism".[15]

In another issue released on 6–12 September 2014, Heat published a photograph of Justin Timberlake, husband to Jessica Biel, at a nightclub in Paris on the night after his performance. The star was photographed partying with women at the club as the title named it "Justin Timberlake gets flirty with another woman, "It is not his wife!".[16] Once the article, as well as the pictures surfaced it caused his marriage with Jessica to be manipulated. The singer and actor lodged a defamation claim in the courts in Ireland against the publishers of the celebrity title over an article, photographs and quotes attributed to Total Recall actor Biel. In the agreed statement read in the high court, a lawyer for the Heat publisher-Bauer group admitted the article – headlined and "The flirty photos that rocked Justin and Jessica’s marriage" – was based on an unfounded report. The article also included purported statements improperly attributed to Biel which the publishers said Heat now understands the actor never made.[17] These allegations were eventually fixed as Bauer media group apologized on Heat Magazine's behalf, and a settlement was made in a hearing before the president of the High Court, Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns.[18]

Heat launched heat's Twitter Awards in 2013 that it says will celebrate “the joyful collision of celebrities and social media”. It’s what social media has been waiting for! Heat promotes its celebrity Twitter awards via Heat’s TV, radio, magazine and social media platforms as well as a marketing campaign, which will include press, radio, digital, PR and retail activity.
There will also be specially created videos for each category that will be released as the campaign progresses. The videos are designed to bring each category to life.[19] The winners will announced via Heatworld.com and also its YouTube Channel.[20][21]

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Big Brother 7 (UK)
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Big Brother 2006, also known as Big Brother 7, was the seventh series of the British reality television series Big Brother. It aired on Channel 4 from 18 May 2006 to 18 August 2006, the series lasted for 93 days, fifteen days longer than the previous series. At the time it was the longest running series and the three series would also run for 13 weeks. It was the first series to be broadcast in 16,9 and this was the first series to feature more than 20 housemates. Prior to the launch of the series, a Golden Ticket competition was promoted to find a housemate who would enter in Week 3, adjacent to the house was the House Next Door, which was used three times throughout the series. The major controversy of this series was the return of four ex-housemates in the penultimate week, although this had been practiced in Big Brother 4 in 2003, the main controversy was that the returning housemate was eligible to win, despite being evicted via public vote. Nominations remained a part of the process, however Big Brother often changed or cancelled nominations some weeks in favour of twists. This series proved to be popular, having an average of 4.7 million viewers. In 2010, Big Brother 7 was voted the publics favourite series of Big Brother, on the final day, six housemates remained, rather than the usual final four as seen in previous non-celebrity series. Pete Bennett - who had been a favourite to win since the first week - received the most votes, Housemate Nikki Grahame has made the most further appearances in future series. In 2009, she made two brief returns, she returned in Celebrity Big Brother 6 for a task, and then again in Big Brother 10 to recreate a task from this series, in 2010, she participated as a housemate in Ultimate Big Brother. She entered on the first night and finished as runner-up to Brian Dowling and she also appeared in Big Brother Canada in 2016 as a housemate. Housemates Glyn Wise, Grace Adams-Short and Bennett also returned during tasks, Grahame returned as a guest for 15 days in Big Brother 16 along with Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace. Wise, Adams-Short and Bennett also returned to this series during tasks, in 2016, Grahame won a public vote to compete in the fourth series of Big Brother Canada. Parts of the sequence include CCTV-style footage of the underpass featured at the start of the version of A Clockwork Orange. The time and date displayed at the bottom keep repeating the digit seven, Davina McCall hosted the main eviction show, as well as the live launch and finale. She would also host the main Channel 4 show on other nights, the nightly highlight shows were once again narrated by Marcus Bentley. This was the last series to feature a highlights show the night after the finale, Diary Room Uncut returned and was extended to one hour and broadcast on Saturday nights, as well as a half hour segment on Monday nights

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Bauer Media Group
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The portfolio includes print shops, postal, distribution and marketing services. Bauer Media Group has a workforce of approximately 11,000 employees in 17 countries, Bauer Verlagsgruppe has been managed by five generations of the Bauer family. Originally a small printing house in Germany, Bauer Media Group entered the UK with the launch of Bella magazine in 1987, under the name of H Bauer Publishing they became Britains third largest publisher. Bauer further expanded in the UK with the purchase of Emap Consumer Media, the group acquired Australian magazine publisher, ACP Magazines from a London-based private equity firm, CVC Capital Partners, in 2012. That increased the turnover to more than €2 billion. In November 2010, Heinz Heinrichs daughter Yvonne Bauer became CEO, in the UK there are two divisions of the Bauer Media Group. The original UK business trades as H Bauer Publishing under CEO David Goodchild and its sister company is known as Bauer Media with CEO Paul Keenan. David Goodchild is also CEO of Bauers Australasian businesses, titles include womens weekly and TV listings magazines, namely Bella, Take a Break, thats life. This is as well as a number of puzzle magazines, in 1987 Bella was H Bauers first venture into publishing in the UK. In 1990, H Bauer launched a womens magazine named Take a Break. H Bauer also has a title, thats life. The H Bauer Publishing brand also includes puzzle magazines that carry the Take a Break name,1991 saw H Bauers first TV listings publishing with the launch of TVQuick magazine. TVQuick ceased publication in July 2010, in 1999 H Bauer launched TVChoice at a much lower price point than other titles on the market. TVChoice overtook its competitor in the February 2008 audited ABCs and has been the number one weekly newsstand magazine in the UK since. In September 2003, H Bauer launched Total TVGuide to cover the number of programmes available on Freeview. Bauer Media is a media group, with locations across the UK. Following their purchase of Emap in 2007, The Bauer Media Group acquired a collection of media brands and this includes heat and Grazia as well as a radio portfolio of national radio brands such as KISS FM UK and Magic, and regional radio brands across major UK cities. In 2013, Bauer Media also acquired the Absolute Radio Group from Times of India, Bauer Media also broadcasts TV music channels including The Box TV, in a joint venture with Channel 4

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International Standard Serial Number
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An International Standard Serial Number is an eight-digit serial number used to uniquely identify a serial publication. The ISSN is especially helpful in distinguishing between serials with the same title, ISSN are used in ordering, cataloging, interlibrary loans, and other practices in connection with serial literature. The ISSN system was first drafted as an International Organization for Standardization international standard in 1971, ISO subcommittee TC 46/SC9 is responsible for maintaining the standard. When a serial with the content is published in more than one media type. For example, many serials are published both in print and electronic media, the ISSN system refers to these types as print ISSN and electronic ISSN, respectively. The format of the ISSN is an eight digit code, divided by a hyphen into two four-digit numbers, as an integer number, it can be represented by the first seven digits. The last code digit, which may be 0-9 or an X, is a check digit. Formally, the form of the ISSN code can be expressed as follows, NNNN-NNNC where N is in the set, a digit character. The ISSN of the journal Hearing Research, for example, is 0378-5955, where the final 5 is the check digit, for calculations, an upper case X in the check digit position indicates a check digit of 10. To confirm the check digit, calculate the sum of all eight digits of the ISSN multiplied by its position in the number, the modulus 11 of the sum must be 0. There is an online ISSN checker that can validate an ISSN, ISSN codes are assigned by a network of ISSN National Centres, usually located at national libraries and coordinated by the ISSN International Centre based in Paris. The International Centre is an organization created in 1974 through an agreement between UNESCO and the French government. The International Centre maintains a database of all ISSNs assigned worldwide, at the end of 2016, the ISSN Register contained records for 1,943,572 items. ISSN and ISBN codes are similar in concept, where ISBNs are assigned to individual books, an ISBN might be assigned for particular issues of a serial, in addition to the ISSN code for the serial as a whole. An ISSN, unlike the ISBN code, is an identifier associated with a serial title. For this reason a new ISSN is assigned to a serial each time it undergoes a major title change, separate ISSNs are needed for serials in different media. Thus, the print and electronic versions of a serial need separate ISSNs. Also, a CD-ROM version and a web version of a serial require different ISSNs since two different media are involved, however, the same ISSN can be used for different file formats of the same online serial

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Jennifer Aniston
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Jennifer Joanna Aniston is an American actress, producer, and businesswoman. She is the daughter of Greek-born actor John Aniston and American actress Nancy Dow, the character was widely popular during the airing of the series and was later recognized as one of the 100 greatest female characters in United States television. Aniston has played the female protagonist in a number of comedies and her box office hits include Bruce Almighty, The Break-Up, Marley & Me, Just Go with It, Horrible Bosses, and Were the Millers, each of which have grossed over US$200 million in worldwide receipts. Her other films include Along Came Polly and Hes Just Not That Into You, in 2008, she co-founded the production company Echo Films. In 2012, Aniston received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and she is one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood, and as of 2014, her net worth is estimated to be US$150 million. She has also included in magazines lists of the worlds most beautiful women. People magazine named Aniston The Most Beautiful Woman in 2004 and 2016, divorced from actor Brad Pitt, to whom she was married for five years, she has been married to actor Justin Theroux since 2015. Aniston was born in Sherman Oaks, California, the daughter of actor John Aniston and her father is Greek, while her mother was born in New York City. One of her maternal great-grandfathers was an Italian immigrant, and her mothers ancestry includes English, Irish, Scottish. Aniston has two half-brothers, John Melick, her older maternal half-brother, and Alex Aniston, her younger paternal half-brother, Anistons godfather was actor Telly Savalas, one of her fathers best friends. As a child, Aniston lived in Greece for a year with her family and they then moved to Eddystone, Pennsylvania, where they lived with her grandmother Stella Anastassakis in a three-bedroom home. While living in Eddystone, Aniston was enrolled at a elementary school. She and her family moved to New York City. Despite her fathers career, Aniston was discouraged from watching TV. When she was six, she began attending a Waldorf school and her mother and father split up when she was nine years old. Her father is best known for his role as Victor Kiriakis on the NBC daytime drama Days of Our Lives and her mother appeared in two 1960s TV series, The Wild Wild West and The Beverly Hillbillies. In 2015, she spoke about an incident that led to her lifelong fear of water. She stated during an event for her film Cake, I basically have a real fear of going underwater

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Brad Pitt
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William Bradley Brad Pitt in Shawnee Oklahoma. He is an American actor and producer and he has received multiple awards and nominations including an Academy Award as producer under his own company Plan B Entertainment. Pitt first gained recognition as a hitchhiker in the road movie Thelma & Louise. His first leading roles in big-budget productions came with the dramas A River Runs Through It and Legends of the Fall, Pitt starred in the cult film Fight Club and the heist film Oceans Eleven and its sequels, Oceans Twelve and Oceans Thirteen. As a public figure, Pitt has been cited as one of the most influential and powerful people in the American entertainment industry, as well as the worlds most attractive man and his personal life is also the subject of wide publicity. Divorced from actress Jennifer Aniston, to whom he was married for five years and they have six children together, three of whom were adopted internationally. In September 2016, Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt, William Bradley Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to William Bill Alvin Pitt, manager of a trucking company, and Jane Etta, a school counsellor. The family soon moved to Springfield, Missouri, where he lived together with his siblings, Douglas. Pitt has described Springfield as Mark Twain country, Jesse James country, having grown up with a lot of hills, Pitt attended Kickapoo High School, where he was a member of the golf, swimming and tennis teams. He participated in the schools Key and Forensics clubs, in school debates, following his graduation from high school, Pitt enrolled in the University of Missouri in 1982, majoring in journalism with a focus on advertising. As graduation approached, Pitt did not feel ready to settle down and he loved films—a portal into different worlds for me—and, since films were not made in Missouri, he decided to go to where they were made. Two weeks before earning his degree, Pitt left the university and moved to Los Angeles, while struggling to establish himself in Los Angeles, Pitt took lessons from acting coach Roy London. Pitts acting career began in 1987, with uncredited parts in the films No Way Out, No Mans Land and his television debut came in May 1987 with a two-episode role on the NBC soap opera Another World. In November of the same year Pitt had a guest appearance on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains and he appeared in four episodes of the CBS primetime series Dallas between December 1987 and February 1988 as Randy, the boyfriend of Charlie Wade. Later in 1988, Pitt made a guest appearance on the Fox police drama 21 Jump Street, in the same year, the Yugoslavian–U. S. Co-production The Dark Side of the Sun gave Pitt his first leading film role, the film was shelved at the outbreak of the Croatian War of Independence, and was not released until 1997. He made guest appearances on television series Head of the Class, Freddys Nightmares, Thirtysomething, and Growing Pains. Pitt was cast as Billy Canton, an addict who takes advantage of a young runaway in the 1990 NBC television movie Too Young to Die. the story of an abused teenager sentenced to death for a murder

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Big Brother (UK TV series)
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Big Brother is the British version of the international reality television franchise Big Brother created by producer John de Mol in 1997. The show follows a number of contestants, known as housemates, each week, one of the housemates is evicted by a public vote, with the last housemate remaining winning a cash prize. The series takes its name from the character in George Orwells 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the series premiered on 18 July 2000 on Channel 4, and immediately became a ratings hit. The series also featured a 24-hour live feed, in which fans could view inside the house at any time, Big Brother aired for eleven series on Channel 4, followed by one final special edition, Ultimate Big Brother, which ended on 10 September 2010. Following this, Channel 5 acquired the rights to the series, the show aired its fifteenth series in 2014, and following the finale on 15 August 2014, Emma Willis announced that the show would be back for a sixteenth series in 2015. It was announced on 19 March 2015 that the show would remain on air until at least 2018, the show was initially hosted by Davina McCall from its inception to its cancellation by Channel 4. Despite being offered the position of host following the move to Channel 5. Former winner Brian Dowling became the host, a position he held throughout the twelfth and thirteenth series, Emma Willis later replaced Dowling as the host of the series for the fourteenth series, then returned to host the fifteenth series also. Marcus Bentley has been the narrator of the series since it premiered in 2000, numerous other spin-off series that are not competition based have aired, with Dermot OLeary, Russell Brand, George Lamb, and Emma Willis all hosting spin-offs. Over the course of its run, there have been a total of 40 series of Big Brother, seventeen series, nineteen celebrity series. Currently, it is the third longest running version of Big Brother to date, following the Spanish, the Big Brother reality series was initially created by John de Mol and premiered in the Netherlands. Following the success of the series, it was confirmed that editions for both the United Kingdom and the United States were in the works, in March 2000, it was revealed that the series would be broadcast by Channel 4 and E4. Casting for the series shortly afterwards. Davina McCall was later revealed to be the host for the series, the first series premiered on 18 July 2000, and ended when housemate Craig Phillips was crowned the winner after 64 days in the House. The series proved to be a hit early in its run, Big Brother 2 premiered on 25 May 2001, and continued to have the success of the previous series. The series concluded on 27 July 2001, when Brian Dowling was crowned the winner, the third series premiered on 24 May 2002, and was the first series to feature a live premiere. Much like the series, the show lasted for 64 days. With the third series finding even more success than its predecessors, the series concluded after 64 days, with Cameron Stout being crowned the winner

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Pop Idol
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Pop Idol is a British television music competition created by Simon Fuller which ran on ITV from 2001 to 2003. The aim of the show was to decide the best new pop singer in the UK based on viewer voting. Two series were broadcast—one in 2001–2002 and a second in 2003, Pop Idol was subsequently put on an indefinite hiatus after series judge Simon Cowell announced the launch of The X Factor in the UK in April 2004. The show has become an international TV franchise since, spawning multiple Idol series worldwide, the final of the first series of Pop Idol in February 2002 received the highest-ever one-night vote for a UK TV show, making the show one of ITVs most profitable. The sister show on ITV2, Pop Idol Extra, hosted by Kate Thornton also made use of mobile phone text messages to raise additional revenue. The first Pop Idol received very high voting figures despite allowing only telephone and Internet voting, the Saturday night primetime show initially followed the audition process, as hopefuls sang before four judges at various locations around the UK. Besides the successful auditionees, the poorest singers were often aired due to their obvious lack of talent or presence, poor singers often faced harsh criticisms from the judges, especially from Simon Cowell. The viewing public quickly fell in love with the format though, the judges policy of speaking candidly would have to be sanitised in series 2, however, as it received condemnation from MPs. Once the first round of auditions were completed, the moved to the Criterion Theatre. Unusually, this was the point at which the judges had direct control over the contestants fates. Stage 3 of the series place in a conventional TV studio. The 50 contestants were split into five groups of ten, each of whom sang one song for the judges, each judge offered their opinion, and at the end of the pre-recorded show phone lines opened for votes. Later the same evening a live show followed in which the results were revealed. In series 2, a round was added, in which the judges selected ten rejected contestants. In this special edition, one contestant, Susanne Manning, was selected by the viewer vote and this meant that the next stage began with twelve contestants, rather than the ten in series 1. For the final stage, the moved to a more lavish TV set. Most editions had a theme, with singing songs from a particular genre or artist. Again, the judges offered comments, but the results were decided by viewer voting, exceptions to the usual format were limited